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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron Re-Appoints Edouard Philippe As Prime Minister Monday June 19,2017

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday June 19,2017 reappointed Edouard Philippe as prime minister after the weekend’s legislative run-off vote and asked him to form the next government, sources at Macron’s office said.

Sunday June 18,2017’s vote saw Macron’s centrist group, the Republic on the Move (REM), secure a massive victory in the National Assembly, giving him the mandate to pursue a pro-EU, business-friendly agenda.

Emmanuel Macron, 39, became France’s youngest president in May after a tumultuous campaign in which the mainstream left and conservative parties lost ground and the far-right National Front failed to make a much-touted breakthrough.

Macron’s election was followed, as scheduled, by legislative elections.

REM and its centrist ally MoDem won 350 seats in the 577-seat assembly. The conservative opposition, the Republicans, won a total of 130 seats with their allies

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